I have never tried to route 5DS3s (sustained traffic) over a router as
small as a 7206VXR. And with a 1Gbp/s bus I am concerned I may get awfully
close to smashing it.
I am trying to conserve rack space, not IP space. :)
Thanks for the suggestion.
Deepak Jain
AiNET
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Siva Valliappan wrote:
> is there a reason you can't use a VXR/NPE-300 with CEF per-packet load
> balancing [instead of the imux path]? if all you need is to conserve
> ip address space, you can un-number the DS3s to a loopback interface.
>
> cheers
> .siva
>
> >
> >
> > I need to provision about 250mb/s of clearchannel IP capacity between two
> > POPs. I'd prefer to do this over OC12POS, but WCOM is 6 months behind
> > capacity for us right now, and can't provide us any additional optical
> > services into that building.
> >
> > So I am stuck using DS3s with the ILEC. I'd rather not stick 2 6port DS3
> > cards (1 in each router) to get the job done while we are waiting for WCOM
> > capacity. Are there any good DS3-IMUX solutions to either 100Mbit/s or
> > 1000Mbit/s ethernet? Or can anyone recommend a good (emphasis on small
> > rack space requirements) Cisco box that can handle that?
> >
> > If I have to terminate the DS3s in a router, I was thinking (from a rack
> > space point-of-view) either an M20 or a 7206VXR. The Juniper seems like
> > overkill because there are no complex routing needs and even a 4-5xDS3
> > bridge would be more than sufficient.
> >
> > Any ideas would be most appreciated.
> >
> > Deepak Jain
> > AiNET
> >
>
>
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